The new coronavirus pandemic raging around the globe will worsen if countries fail to adhere to strict healthcare precautions, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Monday. "If basics are not followed, the only way this pandemic is going to go - it is going to get worse and worse and worse." He urged countries not to make schools into a political football, saying schools could safely reopen once the virus had been suppressed. Tedros said the WHO had still not received formal notification of the U.S. pullout announced by Trump. The U.S. president says the WHO pandered to China, where the COVID-19 disease was first detected, at the start of the crisis.

Source: Standard Digital July 14, 2020 05:03 UTC